Amanda is the Director of Product Management for PEI, whose editorial titles include Private Equity International, Secondaries Investor, Buyouts, PE Hub, VCJ, Real Estate Capital, Private Equity Real Estate, Agri Investor, Infrastructure Investor, Private Debt Investor, Regulatory Compliance Watch and Private Funds CFO. She was previously the company's Group Managing Editor.
As it nears the $2bn mark in a $2.5bn fundraise, UK private equity firm GI Partners' portfolio company Orchid has purchased 10 businesses from collapsed pub chain Bar Room Bar. Orchid had previously sold Bar Room Bar for £20m.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The listed fund of funds, formerly called Bear Stearns Private Equity, needs cash to capitalise on secondary deal flow, fund existing investments and strengthen its balance sheet.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Stephen Green will lead the mid-market firm’s European financial services activities as John Davison ends his six-year tenure to ‘pursue other interests’.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Investment staff will recommend the US pension giant increase its target allocation to private equity to 14%. It currently has 11.7% of its assets, or $21bn, invested in the asset class.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The European mezzanine veteran will evaluate credit opportunities for Clayton, Dubilier & Rice.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Fortress, Lightyear Capital and Crestview Partners comprise the latest private equity consortium to purchase equity stakes in a US government-backed bank.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The Swiss fund of funds investor has raised nearly half of the combined $1.3bn it is seeking for its fourth European vehicle, its second Asia fund and sixth technology fund.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The publicly listed alternative investment firm will sell Class A shares to repay a portion of its outstanding debt as well as generate working capital that may be used to fund GP contributions to Fortress funds.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The global mid-market firm has done Brazil’s biggest private equity deal this year with the purchase of a 30% stake in CETIP, the largest central depository for private fixed income securities and over-the-counter derivatives in Latin America.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Each firm has purchased a photovoltaic plant that has an attractive government-backed feed-in tariff. The tariff – which locked in multi-year fixed rates for projects connected to the power grid from September 2007 to September 2008 – fuelled a solar development boom in Spain.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
